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Christianity, Swimming, and Current Events from Right of CenterThu, 14 Sep 2017 23:24:06 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.2Comment on Of Gun Control “Calls” Post Shooting by Markhttp://www.pseudopolymath.com/archives/7608/comment-page-1#comment-620654
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 23:24:06 +0000http://www.pseudopolymath.com/?p=7608#comment-620654Where do you live? ’cause if it isn’t in say, particularly bad urban neighborhoods, “fearing most the gun” would be innumerate. That is to say, you fear something which is statistically very improbable.
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Fri, 08 Sep 2017 11:04:34 +0000http://www.pseudopolymath.com/?p=7608#comment-620468In the United States. I fear most is the “gun”
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Sat, 22 Jul 2017 18:07:21 +0000http://www.pseudopolymath.com/?p=7608#comment-616619None. Perhaps America has become calloused to such news.
]]>Comment on Exploding Heads or Heads in Sand? by Markhttp://www.pseudopolymath.com/archives/7548/comment-page-1#comment-605553
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 01:08:59 +0000http://www.pseudopolymath.com/?p=7548#comment-605553Sam

So I googled around a bit. Antifa is is not “what they call them”. It’s what they call themselves, at least according to that not very right wing blog “Mother Jones”.

]]>Comment on Exploding Heads or Heads in Sand? by Markhttp://www.pseudopolymath.com/archives/7548/comment-page-1#comment-605541
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 22:13:30 +0000http://www.pseudopolymath.com/?p=7548#comment-605541I see. Well, that explains how the left is explaining the cognitive dissonance … by convoluted narrative it seems. The “alt-right” attacks the left at conservative rallies which causes all the fires, attacks and other violence. Mr Eric Clanton is a alt-right liberal? I suspect not.

Was the alt-right fomenting violence at Trump rallies during the election? Seriously you need a better hypothesis. During the election the press put about an order of magnitude more articles on the KKK connection to Trump than there were actual living KKK members.

“I am a liberal and despise these animals.” …. you despise the left wing violence or the violent response to continued left wing violence? Or do you despise all the violence no matter the source?

Oh, and I don’t do twitter. S/N ratio way too low.

]]>Comment on Exploding Heads or Heads in Sand? by Sam Dobermannhttp://www.pseudopolymath.com/archives/7548/comment-page-1#comment-605501
Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:32:35 +0000http://www.pseudopolymath.com/?p=7548#comment-605501As you realize there can be groups SA like that can go around specifically to cause trouble and riots.

You may notice it is a small group of males dressed mainly in black with face covering that cause the riots. They are the alt-right goons and they are proud of it. Their main targets are what they perceive as “The Left.” The “antifa” they call them.

Carolyn O at @RVAwonk has been following these guys; you should look her twitter line. She retweets the chatter of various groups of these thugs. Also Look up @ProudBoysUSA
They are one of the groups I described. They tweeted on 4/10 about the Berkeley event on 4/15 Said contact @ProudBoysLA @ProudBoysCA @BasedStickMan

Replying to @RVAwonk @PayPal
Chapman threatened yesterday that he’s “coming for” other cities. Seems like an important detail for a guy trying to get bailed out of jail. pic.twitter.com/eFB1p6iBxc
The group who planned & carried out the violence in Berkeley is “recruiting” for chapters in other locations.

Now if police would keep close to these guys and pounce as soon as they start in, the riots would not happen. Watch Marches and demos; those without these goons are pretty peaceful. One thing they like to do is pretend to be liberals and/or post stuff doing that.

I am a liberal and despise these animals.

]]>Comment on Of Bigotry and the Left/Right Divide by Weekend Fisherhttp://www.pseudopolymath.com/archives/7453/comment-page-1#comment-599082
Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:19:24 +0000http://www.pseudopolymath.com/?p=7453#comment-599082Here’s the thing: I grew up having been taught that all conservatives were evil, stupid racists and sexists. Then I got to know some. I’m not sure there’s a basis to the stereotype in the conservatives themselves. Liberals assume (at least for rhetorical purposes) that anyone pro-life is anti-woman; it doesn’t follow. Liberals, in political discourse, generally don’t recognize any distinction between legal immigration and illegal immigration, and name-calls “racist” against anyone who makes that distinction; again it doesn’t follow in the least. Likewise with affirmative action.

I’ve been … stumped for a productive way forward with the political situation. Which, on reflection, is exactly the point of many individuals in the “opposition party”: they want to make anyone stumped how to get along with them, leaving open only the “concede to us” option. Current events have gone further down the road toward insurrection than I had wanted to see in my life, and I have an uneasy feeling they aren’t done expanding their horizons just yet.

At any rate: welcome back.

]]>Comment on Say What? by Markhttp://www.pseudopolymath.com/archives/7423/comment-page-1#comment-598370
Fri, 03 Mar 2017 03:13:46 +0000http://www.pseudopolymath.com/?p=7423#comment-598370Quite a bit more than a year. But … I’ve decided to give it another throw. Sunday evening, I’m going to start writing again … and try to do it regularly … on a schedule. Perhaps not nightly, but 3-4 times a week. Some things need to be said, and some need to be worked out.
]]>Comment on Say What? by Boontonhttp://www.pseudopolymath.com/archives/7423/comment-page-1#comment-570043
Fri, 29 Jul 2016 12:46:59 +0000http://www.pseudopolymath.com/?p=7423#comment-570043Hmmmm it’s been a year. Almost.
]]>Comment on Patriotism by Markhttp://www.pseudopolymath.com/archives/7411/comment-page-1#comment-404550
Sat, 19 Sep 2015 15:27:15 +0000http://www.pseudopolymath.com/?p=7411#comment-404550Boonton,

So I’m unclear where you are getting ‘head to head’ comparisons.

It’s real complicated. A cricket racer asks a person “If the race was between Trump and X who would you vote for?” This is a head to head. You must have heard of polls, err cricket races, of that sort.

]]>Comment on Patriotism by Boontonhttp://www.pseudopolymath.com/archives/7411/comment-page-1#comment-403946
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:13:09 +0000http://www.pseudopolymath.com/?p=7411#comment-403946So I’m unclear where you are getting ‘head to head’ comparisons. My model would predict as candidates drop out some of their voters will go to other candidates and some will go to ‘A’ (i.e. the stand in for Trump). Since A already has 1/3, he does not have to pick up a majority of the remaining votes to win a majority. A minority of votes from each of the remaining candidates will be sufficient to push him over 50%.

Of course if some states have a winner take all system without regard to majority then it gets even easier for A since all he has to do is come into a state with 1/3 of the vote and walk away with all of its delegates.

]]>Comment on Patriotism by Markhttp://www.pseudopolymath.com/archives/7411/comment-page-1#comment-403878
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:29:38 +0000http://www.pseudopolymath.com/?p=7411#comment-403878Boonton,
Your model was a spreadsheet. You had 333 votes for one, 46 for each of the others. When you removed any candidates you apportion votes the others based on a formula. Applying that formula when removing all but your front runner and any one other as you said unless the “disapproval” is higher than about 75% the front runner wins. This is your models. Your model does predict that.

If you had a head to head where you only allowed Trump and one random person on the ballot Trump would have his 333 voters and the other guy would have his 46 voters. But what about the other 700 or so voters?

Your model has a formula for how to apportion the other 700 or so.

]]>Comment on Patriotism by Boontonhttp://www.pseudopolymath.com/archives/7411/comment-page-1#comment-403858
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:34:18 +0000http://www.pseudopolymath.com/?p=7411#comment-403858Keep in mind preferences change over time, people are very prone to changing their preferences in tune with crowds (recall the psych experiments where a class full of people purposefully give a wrong answer to a simple question and the test subjects will more often than not change their answer to align with the one they know is wrong).

With most candidates running Trump could win the first few primaries. As he is perceived to be more of a winner, he can peal away voters from other candidates who wouldn’t have normally voted for him if there the contest was just some single blind poll that happened before any other votes were taken (remember the odd thing about the primary system is that most people who vote in them will be voting after other multiple votes have already happened and the results announced